TECHNOLOGISTS WITH VISION

Accelerate Today With Technology From Tomorrow.

Research-grade AI. Market-defining products.


Our lab tackles the hardest problems in AI alignment and Brain Computer Interfaces. Our studio builds products that win.
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Production battle-tests our science. Science gives our partners an edge.
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We're scientists who ship.

AE.Studio is the team that's trusted by top founders and Fortune 10 executives to win the future—faster.

AE Studio is the team that's trusted by top founders and Fortune 10 executives to win the future—faster.

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Our solutions

Simple solutions using non-simple technology.

Whatever it takes.

We solve the problem, wherever it lives. From frontier AI research to the details of delightful web design, we apply the right expertise for the challenge.

‍Our focus is the outcome. We do the rigorous work required to get you there.

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AI & Data Science

We build the complete intelligence stack. From architecting rigorous data pipelines to training custom machine learning models, we engineer systems that turn your raw information into active intelligence.

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Software & Blockchain

We operate on the technological frontier. We leverage the full spectrum of emerging technology from modern web frameworks to decentralized protocols to engineer platforms that are secure, scalable, and ready for what’s next.

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Startups & Ventures

Aligned with our partner VC, Auspicious Fund,  we bring investor rigor to engineering so everything we ship is technically robust and commercially viable. From internal skunkworks to breakout portfolio companies, we help turn capital into category leaders.

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AI Alignment Research

People have exponential slope blindness to AI capabilities. We are working on research to make it far more likely that powerful AI leads to the best outcomes imaginable, instead of the worst ones.

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Our story

Product development defined by technical excellence, scalability, and long-term value.

We work with

startup founders and enterprise executives who believe in the future of their business. We've helped them use NLP before ChatGPT. Blockchain before NFTs. Computer vision before augmented reality. All driven by our world-class data scientists.

By bringing these brilliant minds together with user-focused designers and experienced developers, we've fostered a team that's obsessed with seeing ahead of the curve and genuinely interested in their work.

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$300M+

Raised by clients we've worked with.

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5-star ratings on Clutch.co

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Projects spanning AI, Data, Software, and Blockchain.

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Academic publications on the future of AI.

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$1B+

raised by our clients
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28

5-star ratings on Clutch.co
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AI, Data, Software, & Blockchain projects
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Publications on AI & Emerging technologies
Our Work
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Our tech is smart. Our people are smarter.

Seasoned founders, former CTOs, user-focused designers, academic PhDs, and formally trained technology consultants enable us to work across any industry and discipline.

We bring all our various backgrounds together in one aligned process to create solutions that would be impossible on our own.

With research experts from Harvard, MIT, and Caltech at the helm of our projects, you can be confident that we'll produce solutions that are unique, modern, and defensible.

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Seasoned founders, former CTOs, user-focused designers, academic PhDs, and formally trained technology consultants enable us to work across any industry and discipline.

We bring all our various backgrounds together in one aligned process to create solutions that would be impossible on our own.

And with research experts from Harvard, Stanford, and CalTech at the helm of our projects, you can be confident that we'll always pursue solutions that challenge the status quo.

The bigger picture.

The bigger picture.

Increasing Human Agency
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Good technology can
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We're removing the barriers.

At AE, we design software that increases human agency. This means frictionless experiences that help people do the things they like and want to do, with no extra fluff or distractions.

We only work on projects that push this philosophy forward.

01 Good for users

It's pretty simple - people generally don't want tech products to wind up manipulating them into doing things they don't want to do.

02 Good for business

Building products with human agency in mind results in happier, more satisfied customers who stick around, spend more money and refer their friends.

03 Good for life

We strive to increase agency not just through building awesome products - we treat our clients and team in ways that respect their agency and also donate 5% of our profits to highly effective charities.

04 Good for our future

Given the increasingly important role technology plays in our daily lives, and future technological advances like AGI and Brain Machine Interfaces, building tech that is designed with agency in mind is crucial to our future.

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Agency-Increasing principles that result in better products and happier customers.

Agency-increasing principles that result in
better products and happier customers.

If you want to build products like this, reach out to us.

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LEARN MORE ABOUT HUMAN AGENCY
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Designed to be friction-free.

Reduce or eliminate obstacles that might hinder a person's ability to take meaningful action or make decisions.

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Function as a seamless extension of ourselves.

Build things that feel intuitive and effortless, mirroring how humans naturally think, move, or communicate.

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Discourage multi-tasking.

Design systems that encourage users to focus on a single task at a time, resulting in enhanced focus and clarity and reduced stress.

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Amplify our transcription fluency.

Enhance the ease, speed, and accuracy with which people can convert their thoughts, speech, or observations into written, recorded, or structured formats.

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Change things only when necessary - only when beneficial to the user.

Make thoughtful changes that serve the user's interests and familiarity rather than introducing unnecessary complexity, novelty, or disruptive alterations.

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Sacrifice short-term economic gains for long-term customer value.

Commit to prioritizing the well-being, satisfaction, and empowerment of users over immediate profit. The money will come. We promise.

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Frequently asked questions

The most popular questions we hear.

What size projects do you take on?
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A team full of experience.

Learn more about our leadership team.

Judd Rosenblatt
Product-focused founder who started AE as a bootstrapped alternative to VC funding—hoping eventually to build an agency-increasing brain-computer interface operating system.

That long-term quest is his ultimate goal with AE Studio, née Agency Enterprise—that AE tries its best to work on products and services that increase human agency. He's optimistic about the future of humanity and he invites you to play a role in creating it with him.
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JUDD ROSENBLATT, CEO
Greg Buckner
17 years building technology products for startups and enterprises. Previously worked at Carbon 5, Intuit, and three LA-based startups. Worked on projects for Pacific Life, LiveNation, Salesforce, AutoDesk and more.
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GREG BUCKNER, COO
Melanie Plaza
10+ years experience building products and leading teams for early-stage startups and tech companies. Former CTO at To The Tens, co-founder of ELIX, and full stack developer and leader at several LA-based startups.

Focused on web technologies, AI and leading teams. B.S. from Yale University, focused on statistical analysis of ecological systems.
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MELANIE PLAZA, CTO
Ed Chen
25+ years of experience using statistics and machine learning to analyze datasets in physics, finance, and online petitions. Expert in machine learning, deep learning, and distributed computing as a means of processing and analyzing large datasets. A.B. Magna Cum Laude in Chemistry & Physics from Harvard College and PhD from Cal Tech in Experimental High Energy Particle Physics.
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ED CHen, HEAD OF DATA SCIENCE
Diogo
Research scientist with 9+ years of experience developing (soft-)robotic systems for rehabilitation after stroke and spinal cord injury. In his PhD at UC Irvine and postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard, Diogo led interdisciplinary teams of engineers, designers, and clinicians to develop systems (including intuitive user interface, embedded firmware, hardware/software integration, and data processing pipelines) to advance the science and technology of on-demand rehabilitation. Previously, he worked in the automotive industry developing engine control algorithms and test automation software for Renault and Volvo.
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DIOGO, CHIEF SCIENTIST
Aaron
Design Engineer & Manager with 12+ years of experience across startups, enterprise, and agencies. Trained in design thinking and human-centered innovation through programs with MIT, IDEO, and NN/g.

Aaron focuses on for-good, human-centered initiatives. Outside of client work, he volunteers to mentor other designers and continues expanding his skills through courses on emerging design processes and technologies.
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AARON, HEAD OF DESIGN
Rafael
Masters degree in computer science with around 15 years of experience in software development. More than 10 years of startup experience and team management. More than five years in customer relationship and product management. Experienced in managing teams and products B2B and B2C that directly impacted more than 150,000 people monthly.

Experienced with Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Python, AngularJS, AWS, GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes, among other technologies and frameworks.
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RAFAEL, CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER
James
13 years building startups and technology with a start at Google. Has led startups through acquisition, implemented agile development and design thinking at Fortune 500s, designed products that got into Y-Combinator, and scaled product teams from 0-50.

Helping found AE Studio in 2016, James is now back in an EIR role helping founders explore how to use emerging technologies like AI to build, launch, and scale their business.
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JAMES RAJ, ENTREPRENEUR IN RESIDENCE
John
John Bargh is a social psychologist and professor at Yale University, where he has formed the Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation, and Evaluation (ACME) Laboratory. Bargh’s work focuses on automaticity and unconscious processing as a method to better understand social behavior, and is particularly well-known for his research on priming. He is now turning to LLMs, and is an advisor to some of AE’s Alignment research projects.
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JOHN BARGH, ADVISOR
Greg Buckner
17 years building technology products for startups and enterpises. Previously worked at Carbon 5, Intuit, and three LA-based startups. Worked on projects for Pacific Life, LiveNation, Salesforce, AutoDesk and more.
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Riteeka, PRODUCT DESIGNER & MANAGER
Greg Buckner
17 years building technology products for startups and enterpises. Previously worked at Carbon 5, Intuit, and three LA-based startups. Worked on projects for Pacific Life, LiveNation, Salesforce, AutoDesk and more.
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GREG BUCKNER, COO

Our founder guarantee.

From the moment we connect, we’ll treat your product or project like it’s our own startup and do whatever it takes, with a founder-level mentality, to make it spectacularly successful.

- The AE Team
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We implement agency-increasing technology around the world.

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More about us.

Learn more about all the members of our team and why we do what we do.

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